It is so hard to keep up with the scandals in the news. A great example is the "Better Call Wohl" scandal currently percolating through social media. Basically a couple of Trump drones have launched a ham-fisted attempt to tar Robert Mueller with sexual assault allegations. It's collapsed to hard, it set off seismographs.
But it sucked up news bandwidth, and now the "story is out there" in conservative echo chambers. No doubt when Mueller makes his report public, idiot conservatives will decry the report based on this foolish stunt by a moron.
But, as Ezra Klein notes, all of this barrage of bullshit detracts from even greater scandals. In the case of his article, Klein notes that the Republican Party has embraced lies so brazen and absurd that it could be said to constitute a crisis in the very idea of electoral politics. The term "gaslighting" has been thrown around a lot these days, but when you have the very people suing to end protection for pre-existing conditions say that they are protecting pre-existing conditions... it's tough to use another word.
As we get closer to what will hopefully be a massive accountability moment for the Republican Party, we see them embrace racism and anti-Semitism and outright, bald-faced lying.
That should tell you what you need to know about the state of Republican politics.
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